G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) | First Editions

1874 - 1936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton (and sometimes referred to as G.K.C.), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." He is most fondly remembered for the creation of fictional priest-detective Father Brown. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.

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London, Thornton Butterworth. 1925. First UK Edition. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled in black to spine. Lightly bumped to spine ends. Spotting to page edges. Internally clean. In a crisp, clean dustwrapper with chips and loss to upper right front panel and the head of spine just affecting top edge... More about Abishag

London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., 1910. [Fantasy novel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.403. Publisher's mid green cloth, titled in gilt, with errata slip to p.93. The second state with title page and pp.357/8 appearing as cancels. A fine copy with a little cracking to inside joints. Shows extremely well. Chesterton's... More about The Ball and the Cross

London: Cassell, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. 310pp. Publisher's green cloth titled and ruled in green to spine and front board. Lightly sunned along edges and spine. Cassell publisher's label to front board. In an extremely good copy of the scarce dustwrapper, bright, sharp and crisp, with minor edgewear to head... More about Tales of The Long Bow

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